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In this lick the incredible Cameron Allen shows us some of his 8 finger tapping technique. Let's check that out first.
Now keen eyed viewers may be shouting at the screen, "he's not using all 8 fingers, so it's not 8 finger t...

In this short little lesson, Cameron digs into one of the trademarks North Carolina born guitar monster Jimmy Herring.
Aside from the more obvious gigs that Jimmy is known for like Widespread Panic and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, Jimmy also had a s...

One of the best parts of operating the Guitar Idol competition is that we get to see some of the most exciting young talented players in the world, and noone had us as wowed as the incredible Cameron Allen.
Cameron is going to be a big part of Li...

Coming from the melodic minor scale, the superlocrian scale can be called mode 7, so if we take the notes of A melodic minor (ABCDEF#G#) and begin on the 7th (G#) then you would have the notes of G# superlocrian.
The question is, how is this of u...

In this short lesson we're going to talk about the history of technique driven guitar playing by looking at the rise of the 3 note per string pentatonic scale.
As the name would suggest, the 3 note per string fingerings of the pentatonic scal...

After the success of our last blog post, it seemed like a good idea to bring you another, so here we have a little idea from Guitar Idol winner, Andre Nieri.
Andre stands out from the pack as a player because of his ability to blend in his ri...

Today we're going to dig into the world of the diminished scale and end with a lick from the incredible Cameron Allen.
Now I'm sure you've heard the term "diminished" before, you may have even played a diminished chord or ar...

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